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Word: stiff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Field on Wednesday. In both the University one-mile relay and the Freshman medley relay race, the Crimson runners are sufficiently strong to overcomes the stiff opposition which will be offered them in those events, and add several additional points to the University total...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROSPECTS BRIGHT IN I.C.A.A.A. MEET TODAY | 3/1/1924 | See Source »

Coach Winsor put his players through a stiff one hour's session yesterday afternoon in preparation for the Yale game tomorrow night at New Haven. During the first part of the time the squad divided the ice with the B. A. A. and later on scrimmaged the Boston outfit, which was reinforced by the return of Small from the Olympic team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRUSH WITH B. A. A. KEYS HOCKEY TEAM FOR YALE | 2/29/1924 | See Source »

...Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer's as the author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Harry in Africa* | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

Captain W. P. Dixon has a stiff week end ahead of him. Today at 4 o'clock he meets C. C. Peabody in the finals of the Massachusetts State Tournament. Tomorrow at 3, he will meet Captain Macllwaine of the Racquet Club, reputedly one of the best metropolitan players; and on Sunday at 3 he will encounter the metropolitan champion, Captain Ells, of the strong University Club combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUASH TEAM TO PASS WEEK-END IN NEW YORK | 2/15/1924 | See Source »

...problem is one that affects the whole University," he said. "That the union will go through is unlikely in the face of the stiff opposition it will encounter. For any singing organization to travel with the Instrumental Club will reflect on the University Glee Club, whose high reputation is jealously guarded, since confusion of the two bodies in people's minds is inevitable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINGERS BALK AT MERGER WITH INSTRUMENTAL, CLUB | 2/13/1924 | See Source »

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